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But why would an angry biker who lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and blames himself for losing his wife ever speak loudly or out of turn? It just doesn't make any sense.
As someone who trashed the game leading up to it I was dead wrong. Game is awesome. Its not the best game ever made but it's a really good take on an open world zombie game. It's like Mad Mad x State of Decay but with Sony behind it. You can feel all the years of development pumped into this and if you like a good open world single player game with good characters/story and without any trash microtransactions or charged DLC go for it (DLC is coming but its free). It's also drop dead gorgeous in both 1080p and 4k HDR.
Deacon has mental issues. Also on the Bike he speaks louder but the audio mixing is not the best so it sounds weird.
Does bike handling improve through upgrades, i really don't enjoy it right now. Its hard to turn and seems laggy.
No like dude is having a casual convo with someone on the back of his bike then all of a sudden starts yelling at the person while maintaining the same convo.
Games getting better the more I play. Just got to the 3rd main camp. And gosh the game is beautiful at times.
Shame you can activate photo mode in the middle of knifing a freaker though.
Shame you can activate photo mode in the middle of knifing a freaker though.
From that video it only looks good in the very first instance. Still cool though.
it's the audio mixing of the bike sounds. They make Deacon speaks louder because they presume the bike is loud but it isn't. Either a glitch or bad mixing.
It's mind-blowing beautiful.
One of the biggest problems the game has is the pacing, it has incredible cutscenes, incredible rides from one place to another, beautiful set pieces and stunning walks through a brand new camp. There is just a tiny bit too much open world stuff in between that could turn some people off.
But on the other hand..... It's even more surprising, almost shocking then, when it rips you out of your standard open world routine after hours and hours of doing the same (but mostly still cool, fun and exciting, don't get me wrong) stuff and shows you cutscenes, missions, brand new camps and more game world and simply stuff you never expected from a normal open world game.
Cause it's so different to what other open world games did in the past.
It's a weird pacing but my god can it surprise in this game.
Maybe because they tried doing something like in RDR2 and Spider-Man where they recorded the conversations twice(Calm and yelling) for when the bike is loud but didn't implement properly.
Haha, I had that happen once. Just raises his voice really high, lol.
Did they take down the 1.06 patch. I got it ready to install and then when I check my update history it's still 1.05.
Fantastic, thanks.
How long did it take you to beat it, approximately?
It seems so. I just turn up the console and there is no update to download.
Yep. Be glad you didn't. It's causing hard-crashes. I've had 3 personally. Gave up trying to play until they fix this.
Man, the Lost Lakes segment of the story is really great.
No problems with the 1.06 patch so far for me, playing on a PS4 Slim.
No problems with the 1.06 patch so far for me, playing on a PS4 Slim.
Can you folks answer a few questions for me plz? I'm thinking about buying this.
1. Are the reviews scores about what you'd agree with?
2. How's performance since the last patch?
1. Are the reviews scores about what you'd agree with?
2. How's performance since the last patch?
How far in is
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1. Some of the low reviews astound me, and on average the reviews are lower than I expected. This game is better than its aggregate, and got some scores that don't reflect the quality of game it is. Scores befitting something much, much, much worse.
2. There are still performance issues, unless a patch downloaded after I quit playing at 5am. Slowdown while driving and brief pauses. Nothing too terrible.
Deacon revisiting, then burning the church he got married in
1. Some of the low reviews astound me, and on average the reviews are lower than I expected. This game is better than its aggregate, and got some scores that don't reflect the quality of game it is. Scores befitting something much, much, much worse.
2. There are still performance issues, unless a patch downloaded after I quit playing at 5am. Slowdown while driving and brief pauses. Nothing too terrible.
1. it's tough to talk about reviews because ultimately it's their opinion. I would say the game start a little rough and around a 7 but constantly ascending towards a 8 for me and maybe even higher. I would not agree with scores that goes to 5s-4s specially from sites that never go that low. I would not agree with a 10 as well.
2. Which console? On the Pro the performance has been pretty good with version 1.05 for me.
Perfect, thanks friends. BTW i'd play it on the pro.
I haven't read any of the reviews or even know the Meta score. But what I can say with absolute certainty is that this game is one of a kind in the open world genre, and it's the closest thing I've felt to playing The Last of Us since 2013. I'm hooked right now, and that isn't easy anymore.
Works as expected, haven't experienced any frame-rate or audio issues.
i'd say i would agree with reviewers that have it in the 7.5 - 8 range. it definitely has some issues that detract from the experience but it's pros outweigh the cons for me at least. For open world games atmosphere is big for me and i feel that they nailed that part of the game.
haven't had any performance issues that bothered me on my pro
If they address the performance issues I'd be happy giving this game an 8. I need to finish it before I have a firm opinion though.
indeed reminds me of the good ole san andreas on ps2 days with the rubberbanding and shit
I can't tell if deacon being super loud is just bad audio mixing or intended due to him being unhinged. Its often hard to hear dialogue over your bike. Cutscene audio has really bad mixing too. Had to turn on sub-titles.
I also hate games that use the DS4 speaker. Have never liked the gimick and always turn it off. Perhaps they had the intention of making it sound like a low quality recording or something? Let me listen to the audio normally pls.
I also hate games that use the DS4 speaker. Have never liked the gimick and always turn it off. Perhaps they had the intention of making it sound like a low quality recording or something? Let me listen to the audio normally pls.
At times I am embarrassed how much obvious approaches are not clicking with me...
I found a big ass cave with a Nero point inside it. Towards the Northwest of the map. I am only like 4-5 hours in if that.
First time I wander into the cave I die almost immediately as I am not expecting the insane amount of freakers in that shit.
Next time I thought maybe I could sneak up quietly and toss some molotovs. Nope. Died pretty much just as quick.
No matter what I did, the whole cave woke up pretty damn quick and it is the largest amount of zombies I have encountered yet.
Remembering my conversation with someone last night about using the Distractor somewhere else, I was like oh yeah let me try that shit, maybe it will help.
Before I did that though I said to myself fuck it, I think it would help if I see someone else doing in first. I need to get the hang of these larger groups of zombies and truly no shame in my game. I am a 44 year old gamer who does not have as much time as I once did to play so if I need some help getting better at a game, I seek it. The alternative is me saying fuck this game and moving on, and I am enjoying the game too much for that.
So I proceed to Google the Nero point name and cave.
What I immediately find was multiple articles and all of them said
As soon as I read that I was like damn it, that makes so much sense I am truly embarrassed I did not think of it myself.
I share the above as to me it is a small example of what makes the game really damn good game at times. Despite being set in a post apocalyptic setting with zombies around every corner, there is some reality to things no doubt.
I have still not attempted the above, but I am assuming the next time I do, it will be manageable. I need to start being way more strategic with things apparently, and that is pretty damn great.
I found a big ass cave with a Nero point inside it. Towards the Northwest of the map. I am only like 4-5 hours in if that.
First time I wander into the cave I die almost immediately as I am not expecting the insane amount of freakers in that shit.
Next time I thought maybe I could sneak up quietly and toss some molotovs. Nope. Died pretty much just as quick.
No matter what I did, the whole cave woke up pretty damn quick and it is the largest amount of zombies I have encountered yet.
Remembering my conversation with someone last night about using the Distractor somewhere else, I was like oh yeah let me try that shit, maybe it will help.
Before I did that though I said to myself fuck it, I think it would help if I see someone else doing in first. I need to get the hang of these larger groups of zombies and truly no shame in my game. I am a 44 year old gamer who does not have as much time as I once did to play so if I need some help getting better at a game, I seek it. The alternative is me saying fuck this game and moving on, and I am enjoying the game too much for that.
So I proceed to Google the Nero point name and cave.
What I immediately find was multiple articles and all of them said
just wait until night as the zombies will not be sleeping inside the cave.
I share the above as to me it is a small example of what makes the game really damn good game at times. Despite being set in a post apocalyptic setting with zombies around every corner, there is some reality to things no doubt.
I have still not attempted the above, but I am assuming the next time I do, it will be manageable. I need to start being way more strategic with things apparently, and that is pretty damn great.
finally got my copy in!
ready to go. uhhhh thnx on the heads up for update. downloading 1.05 instead now
ready to go. uhhhh thnx on the heads up for update. downloading 1.05 instead now
Your last sentence, absolutely disagreed, I am afraid. It's a nice looking game but both of those games are superior looking.
Its all you can update they pulled it a long time ago.
Had a real goty-moment with this game. Came accross a Nero camp, thought I unplugged all speakers...I was wrong.
Turns out this triggers one of the bigger hordes in the game. I manage to escape, but welp turns out I've parked my bike too close
to the camp and now it's in the middle of several hundreds of Freakers. The following hour was one tense attempt to retrieve my bike. Created a nice pile of 100 dead freakers with attractors and bombs, but at that point I found out they weren't lying about hordes being really big. Long story short: I died, lost all the progress, but wasn't frustrated at all. I love this game!
Turns out this triggers one of the bigger hordes in the game. I manage to escape, but welp turns out I've parked my bike too close
to the camp and now it's in the middle of several hundreds of Freakers. The following hour was one tense attempt to retrieve my bike. Created a nice pile of 100 dead freakers with attractors and bombs, but at that point I found out they weren't lying about hordes being really big. Long story short: I died, lost all the progress, but wasn't frustrated at all. I love this game!
Well according to some comments I'm still not at 50% progress and I honestly don't just like the game, but I'm beginning to like it even more. There were some really awesome and long missions (with other characters involved, not just action, but a lot of rides/talks) in the Lake camp. I'm really not sure what people so strongly dislike about the game, I was really bored with Assassin's Creed until Origins and Odyssey especially or Ghost Recon Wildlands. Wildlands just has terrible characters, story and only a great looking world with the same boring mission over and over and over again and that got a higher score than Days Gone on IGN.
Yes, I haven't read the review, also not the Gamespot one, but I don't get it at all, even if you are annoying by "zombie" like enemies, open world with nothing totally new. I like some characters, you get to know a lot more about the world, NERO, the main character, some side characters, even stuff like the MC, why he is still wearing his patch, etc.
I'm still coming across new "random" events, mission types, etc. there is still new stuff coming in. So far I would rate it around 8, depend on the second half or 30+% that's still missing for me, I can't see myself going lower than a 7 personally, more likely 8.5/9 in the end, if it keeps on improving. For me, the game really picked up in the 3rd camp.
Yes, I haven't read the review, also not the Gamespot one, but I don't get it at all, even if you are annoying by "zombie" like enemies, open world with nothing totally new. I like some characters, you get to know a lot more about the world, NERO, the main character, some side characters, even stuff like the MC, why he is still wearing his patch, etc.
I'm still coming across new "random" events, mission types, etc. there is still new stuff coming in. So far I would rate it around 8, depend on the second half or 30+% that's still missing for me, I can't see myself going lower than a 7 personally, more likely 8.5/9 in the end, if it keeps on improving. For me, the game really picked up in the 3rd camp.
oh yeah, those damn speakers ^^ I though I got all of them as well, turning on the generator and ...I missed two and really had issues finding one of it or more like hitting it from my spot ;) but your yourney sounds way worse...
Side missions are given by camp leaders and are generally bounty related.
There are also nests/infection zones, NERO outpost 'puzzles' (using that loosely)..
Is there hit markers for all weapons and is consistent that every time you hit something with a bullet a hit marker shows?
I'm not having a problem with 1.06, ps4 base, but getting to the third camp, that whole area took a noticeable performance dip, don't know why.